Sheila Hemami, PhD

Dr. Sheila Hemami brings to Triple Ring her experience in addressing unmet technology needs for the environment (especially for the oceans) and for medical devices for under-served populations. She has addressed challenges ranging from coral restoration to low-resource neonatal health care, all with very early-stage technology development in which pre-competitive cooperation across sectors was required. She has built and managed cross-sector, interdisciplinary and collaborative teams of engineers, scientists, and end-users to work together from project ideation through implementation and release to ensure that the ultimate solution will be impactful, deployable, and sustainable. She also brings experience in R&D management and technology transfer with universities. Prior to her industrial career, she was a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Cornell University, where her research focused on robust and perceptual image and video communications, and at Northeastern University where she served as department chair. Sheila was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2008 for “contributions to robust and perceptual image and video communications” and she has authored over 130 peer-reviewed publications.

Sheila holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.